92 WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #92, September 21, 2022
"Ukraine and the Politics of
Permanent War. " by Chris Hedges
CIA in Proxy War in Ukraine. Caitlin
Johnstone
Tolstoy Excerpt from Patriotism and
Christianity
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CHRIS HEDGES. "Ukraine
and the Politics of Permanent War. " Narrated by Eunice Wong. Originally posted 08/28/2022
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CIA in US Proxy War
Western officials admit Ukraine is crawling with CIA personnel By Caitlin
A. Johnstone (Posted Jun 28, 2022). (Also published in Space Alert! Summer 2022). https://mronline.org/2022/06/28/western-officials-admit-ukraine-is-crawling-with-cia-personnel/
The New York Times reports that Ukraine is crawling with special forces and
spies from the U.S. and its allies, which would seem to contradict earlier
reports that the U.S.
intelligence cartel is having trouble getting intel about what’s happening on
the ground in Ukraine. This would also,
obviously, put the final nail in the coffin of the claim that this is not a U.S.
proxy war. (continued)
Tolstoy’s
Patriotism
and Christianity, a Foundation for WWW and
CMM
Leo
Tolstoy from his book
"No
feats of heroism are needed to achieve the greatest and most important changes
in the existence of humanity; neither the armament of millions of soldiers, nor
the construction of new roads and machines, nor the arrangement of exhibitions,
nor the organization of workmen's unions, nor revolutions, nor barricades, nor
explosions, nor the perfection of aerial navigation; but a change in public
opinion.
And
to accomplish this change no exertions of the mind are needed, nor the
refutation of anything in existence, nor the invention of any extraordinary
novelty; it is only needful that we should not succumb to the erroneous,
already defunct, public opinion of the past, which governments have induced
artificially; it is only needful that each individual should say what he really
feels or thinks, or at least that he should not say what he does not think.
...
One
is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those
calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.
...
One
free man will say with truth what he thinks and feels amongst thousands of men
who by their acts and words attest exactly the opposite. It would seem that he
who sincerely expressed his thought must remain alone, whereas it generally
happens that every one else, or the majority at least, have been thinking and
feeling the same things but without expressing them.
And
that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the
general opinion of the majority.
And
as soon as this opinion is established, immediately by imperceptible degrees,
but beyond power of frustration, the conduct of mankind begins to alter.
Whereas
at present, every man, even, if free, asks himself, "What can I do alone
against all this ocean of evil and deceit which overwhelms us? Why should I
express my opinion? Why indeed possess one? It is better not to reflect on
these misty and involved questions. Perhaps these contradictions are an
inevitable condition of our existence. And why should I struggle alone with all
the evil in the world? Is it not better to go with the stream which carries me
along? If anything can be done, it must be done not alone but in company with
others."
And
leaving the most powerful of weapons — thought and its expression — which move
the world, each man employs the weapon of social activity, not noticing that
every social activity is based on the very foundations against which he is
bound to fight, and that upon entering the social activity which exists in our
world every man is obliged, if only in part, to deviate from the truth and to
make concessions which destroy the force of the powerful weapon which should
assist him in the struggle. It is as if a man, who was given a blade so
marvelously keen that it would sever anything, should use its edge for driving
in nails.
We
all complain of the senseless order of life, which is at variance with our
being, and yet we refuse to use the unique and powerful weapon within our hands
— the consciousness of truth and its expression; but on the contrary, under the
pretext of struggling with evil, we destroy the weapon, and sacrifice it to the
exigencies of an imaginary conflict'.
...
One
man does not assert the truth which he knows, because he feels himself bound to
the people with whom he is engaged; another, because the truth might deprive
him of the profitable position by which he maintains his family; a third,
because he desires to attain reputation and authority, and then use them in the
service of mankind; a fourth, because he does not wish to destroy old sacred
traditions; a fifth, because he has no desire to offend people; a sixth,
because the expression of the truth would arouse persecution, and disturb the
excellent social activity to which he has devoted himself.
One
serves as emperor, king, minister, government functionary, or soldier, and
assures himself and others that the deviation from truth indispensable to his
condition is redeemed by the good he does. Another, who fulfils the duties of a
spiritual pastor, does not in the depths of his soul believe all he teaches,
but permits the deviation from truth in view of the good he does. A third
instructs men by means of literature, and notwithstanding the silence he must
observe with regard to the whole truth, in order not to stir up the government
and society against himself, has no doubt as to the good he does. A fourth
struggles resolutely with the existing order as revolutionist or anarchist, and
is quite assured that the aims he pursues are so beneficial that the neglect of
the truth, or even of the falsehood, by silence, indispensable to the success
of his activity, does not destroy the utility of his work.
In
order that the conditions of a life contrary to the consciousness of humanity
should change and be replaced by one which is in accord with it, the outworn
public opinion must be superseded by a new and living one. And in order that
the old outworn opinion should yield its place to the new living one, all who are
conscious of the new requirements of existence should openly express them. And
yet all those who are conscious of these new requirements, one in the name of
one thing, and one in the name of another, not only pass them over in silence,
but both by word and deed attest their exact opposites.
...
Only
the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will
reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of life; and yet we not only
do not express the truth we know, but often even distinctly give expression to
what we ourselves regard as false.
If
only free men would not rely on that which has no power, and is always fettered
— upon external aids; but would trust in that which is always powerful and free
— the truth and its expression!"
Thanks
to Abel Tomlinson
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